Sharing our thinking in the open helps connect with others trying to advance the future of digital working. Our archive of articles and links is open and available below.
Leadership Mindsets for the Digital Age
This week’s curator Cerys Hearsey, explores the mindset needed for leading digital change in large organisations, and how this manifests into three different scales of thinking. The early days of digital change within organisations highlighted how essential the role...
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Digital Workplace Futures Event
Our Digital Workplace Futures event last week (#psdw18) provided a great opportunity to hear from practitioners involved in the use of digital workplace technology to enable new ways of working and organisational improvement. It was great to see so many friends and...
The Digital Workplace: Past, Present & Future
(This post summarises an introductory talk I gave at our recent Digital Workplace Futures event in London - see here for a summary of the discussion that followed) Where have we come from? The beginnings of the digital workplace can be traced back to adoption of...
Typeform breach affecting our public diagnostic survey
We were notified at 10.19pm (BST) last night that Typeform, a third-party service provider we have used to collect survey results on the public version of our online diagnostic test, suffered a data breach affecting some of their customers, including us. After a...
The Power of Enterprise People Networks
This week's curator Livio Hughes considers the importance of social structures and the role of people networks, guide networks and ESNs inside our organisations. Here at Post*Shift, we have long believed that being ‘networked’ is a key attribute of modern, adaptive...
Human-Centric Automation
This week's curator, Sam Thomas, shares some links about the growing need for automation and robotics to be designed in a way that complements, rather than just replaces our human skills. As the capabilities and acceptance of artificial intelligence grow, we are...
Bridging the Digital Skills Gap in the Digital Workplace
An organisation’s approach to learning is a key success factor in its digital transformation efforts, and we are seeing three areas of focus emerging as predictors of maturity: how an organisation bridges its digital skills and confidence gaps how an organisation...
Why Customer-Centricity is more than just Customer Focus
This week's curator Laura-Jane Parker considers the importance of customer-centricity for adaptive Digital Age organisations, and why a customer focus is not enough. One of the UK's most iconic retail companies, Marks and Spencer, has been in the headlines again for...
Growing communities beyond the edges of the organisation
This week's curator Sam Thomas looks at some success stories of communities expanding beyond the edges of their organisations. In digitally mature organisations we are used to seeing strong communities of engaged, self-selecting members gathered around a shared...
Event: The Future of the Digital Workplace
Over the past decade, all-in-one social business solutions such as IBM Connections and Jive emerged as the silver bullet solution to open, collaborative ways of working. Promising the death of email and files, businesses were quick to embrace but slow to adopt. A new...
Change the old or build the new?
This week, Lee Bryant considers the difficulty of trying to change organisations from within, and considers the role that technology might play in building the future firm. We work with large organisations that have typically optimised their management structures and...